Everyday English with James (Advanced Native English Listening Practice)

• A British cup of tea

  In this episode, we’re in the kitchen.There’s steam on the window. Rain outside. The clink of a spoon against a mug.We follow the journey of tea, from ancient leaves in China to builder’s brews on British scaffolding.It’s a story of empire, class, comfort, and quiet ritual. Of arguments over milk, sugar, and whether a proper cuppa needs a teapot.I walk you through the history, the culture, and the method - not the fancy stuff, but the real stuff.If you’ve ever wondered why Brits care so much about tea… this one’s for you.🧠 Today We Learn:Vocabulary: Tea & Food, Home & Everyday Life, British Idioms & Everyday SpeechGrammar: Mixed Conditionals to talk about an unreal past and its effect on the present, Right Dislocation / Displacement to add emphasis or make speech feel more natural and conversational.✨ Get this episode’s transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135320912📲 Follow me, Get transcripts, Book a class with me: https://linktr.ee/jamesbradleyenglish🐣 Too difficult? Search:“Beginner English with James” (beginner)“Slow English with James” (intermediate)

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• My Folding Bike

  In this episode, we’re riding home on a wonky second-hand bike - it folds in half, squeaks on corners, and makes you feel slightly ridiculous.This is a story about bad bike rental schemes, stolen wheels, and the quiet pride of holding your own against Lycra-clad cyclists on carbon frames.It’s also about learning to live with things that wobble, fix what’s broken, and find freedom in the awkward.Linguistically, it’s packed with UK slang, casual phrasal verbs, and metaphors born from movement: folding, snapping, setting up, sticking it in the boot.If you’ve ever been proud of your own bicycle, then this one’s for you!🧠 Today We Learn:Vocabulary: Everyday Action Phrasal Verbs, Bike & Transport, British Slang & Informal English, Idiomatic ExpressionsGrammar: Compressed noun phrases (to pack multiple ideas into tight, efficient units), Relative clauses with prepositions at the end (to make speech sound more natural and conversational), Ellipsis and substitution for cohesion (to avoid repetition and keep the flow natural).✨ Get this episode’s transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/134435865📲 Follow me, Get transcripts, Book a class with me: https://linktr.ee/jamesbradleyenglish🐣 Too difficult? Search:“Beginner English with James” (beginner)“Slow English with James” (intermediate)

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• Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road

  In this episode, we’re getting behind the wheel.First time. Wrong side. Wrong hand on the gearstick?This is a story about learning to trust yourself when everything feels backwards.New roads, new rules, and calming down after fifteen minutes of full-blown panic.I talk through riding scooters, driving vans, motorway freedom, near-misses in Spain, and the then learning to just get on with it.Linguistically, it features participle clauses, fronted adverbials, and conditional reflection; all perfect for learners pushing into natural, advanced English.If you've ever felt out of your depth but carried on anyway, this one's for you.🧠 Today We Learn:Vocabulary: Driving & Vehicles, British Slang & Informal Speech.Grammar: Participle Clauses to show cause, time, or detail more elegantly by condensing full sentences, Fronted Adverbials to shift focus or set the scene by placing time, place, or contrast at the start of a sentence, Mixed and Implied Conditionals to reflect on imagined or uncertain outcomes in a natural, conversational way.✨ Get this episode’s transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/133332785📲 Follow me, Get transcripts, Book a class with me: https://linktr.ee/jamesbradleyenglish🐣 Too difficult? Search:“Beginner English with James” (beginner)“Slow English with James” (intermediate)

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• I woke up at 5am

  In this episode, we’re on a sofa. Sweating.It’s the middle of the night in the middle of summer. That strange, half-conscious hour where sleep slips through your fingers and the world feels slightly unreal.I talk through these fragments: the taste of cold, the war between heat and comfort, the stillness of city nights, and the slow, heavy rituals of insomnia.This episode is a quiet meditation on restlessness, overheated thoughts, and how seasons shape our state of mind.Linguistically, it features participle clauses, passive voice for poetic effect, and the occasional Old English alliterative pulse for rhythm and weight.If you’ve ever stared at the ceiling at 5AM, half-asleep, half-somewhere else — this one’s for you.🧠 What You’ll Learn:Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs, Emotional & Mental States, Spatial & Sensory LanguageGrammar: Participle Clauses to add flow, variety, and descriptive power by showing cause, time, or detail within one sentence, Alliterative Rhythm to create a punchy, poetic sound through repeated consonants, echoing the war-drum cadence of Old English storytelling, Cadence and Pacing to control the mood, tension, and emotional rise and fall of the piece through sentence length, punctuation, and strategic silence.✨ Get the transcript (with highlighted vocabulary) and flashcard pack for this episode:Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/132125744💡 Do you love my English lessons? Want to support my work? 😊Buy me a cup of tea ☕ https://ko-fi.com/jamesbradleyenglishJoin my Patreon for €3 a month: https://www.patreon.com/JamesBradleyEnglish📲Instagram,TikTok,YouTube: @jamesbradleyenglish🤯 Too difficult?Don’t worry. Listen to:The beginner’s version on Beginner’s English with JamesThe intermediate version on Slow English with James.

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• Days at the Beach

  In this episode, we leave behind the city and step into the salt-stung stillness of the beach - a place that pulls people from miles around to do nothing, and feel everything.We move through the day slowly: the ritual of getting ready, the laughter, the freezing water, the sand you can’t quite get rid of.But also the quiet - the kind that only comes after a swim, when your body is sun-warm and your mind is still.I share memories of British seaside trips from my childhood, and how my relationship with the beach has changed now that I live closer to it.There’s music in the background, jellyfish in the shallows, and even a night-time storm in autumn, where the sky lights up and the sea growls back.This episode is a meditation on rest, stillness, and sensory joy - told through clever modifiers, rich nominalisation, and inversion for emotional weight.If you’ve ever felt the peace of lying on a towel with nothing to do but exist — this one’s for you.🧠 What You’ll Learn:Vocabulary: Nature & Environment, Travel & Experience, Sensory & Emotional Language, Storytelling & Description Tools, British Slang TermsGrammar: Clever Modifiers to intensify feeling, Nominalisation to express feelings, concepts, and actions as compact weighty nouns, Inversion for Emphasis to spotlight key ideas and add dramatic effect.✨ Get the transcript (with highlighted vocabulary) and flashcard pack for this episode:Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/people-on-train-129988843💡 Do you love my English lessons? Want to support my work? 😊Buy me a cup of tea ☕ https://ko-fi.com/jamesbradleyenglishJoin my Patreon for €3 a month: https://www.patreon.com/JamesBradleyEnglish📲Instagram,TikTok,YouTube: @jamesbradleyenglish🤯 Too difficult?Don’t worry. Listen to:The beginner’s version on Beginner’s English with JamesThe intermediate version on Slow English with James.

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